Geometric moment-dependent global sensitivity analysis without simulation data: application to ship hull form optimisation

S Khan, P Kaklis, A Serani, M Diez - Computer-Aided Design, 2022 - Elsevier
In this work, we propose and test a method to expedite Global Sensitivity Analysis (GSA) in
the context of shape optimisation of free-form shapes. To leverage the computational burden …

CarHoods10k: An industry-grade data set for representation learning and design optimization in engineering applications

P Wollstadt, M Bujny, S Ramnath… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Large-scale, high-quality data sets are central to the development of advanced machine
learning techniques that increase the effectiveness of existing optimization methods or even …

Surrogate modeling of car drag coefficient with depth and normal renderings

B Song, C Yuan, F Permenter… - International …, 2023 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Generative AI models have made significant progress in automating the creation of 3D
shapes, which has the potential to transform car design. In engineering design and …

Multitask shape optimization using a 3-d point cloud autoencoder as unified representation

T Rios, B van Stein, T Bäck, B Sendhoff… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The choice of design representations, as of search operators, is central to the performance
of evolutionary optimization algorithms, in particular, for multitask problems. The multitask …

Exploiting generative models for performance predictions of 3D car designs

S Saha, T Rios, LL Minku, BV Stein… - 2021 IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In automotive digital development, engineers utilize multiple virtual prototyping tools to
design and assess the performance of 3D shapes. However, accurate performance …

Feature visualization for 3D point cloud autoencoders

T Rios, B van Stein, S Menzel, T Back… - … Joint Conference on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In order to reduce the dimensionality of 3D point cloud representations, autoencoder
architectures generate increasingly abstract, compressed features of the input data …

Variational autoencoders for 3D data processing

S Molnár, L Tamás - Artificial Intelligence Review, 2024 - Springer
Variational autoencoders (VAEs) play an important role in high-dimensional data generation
based on their ability to fuse the stochastic data representation with the power of recent …

Drivaernet: A parametric car dataset for data-driven aerodynamic design and graph-based drag prediction

M Elrefaie, A Dai, F Ahmed - arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.08055, 2024 - arxiv.org
This study introduces DrivAerNet, a large-scale high-fidelity CFD dataset of 3D industry-
standard car shapes, and RegDGCNN, a dynamic graph convolutional neural network …

Quantifying the generative capabilities of variational autoencoders for 3D car point clouds

S Saha, S Menzel, LL Minku, X Yao… - 2020 IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
During each cycle of automotive development, large amounts of geometric data are
generated as results of design studies and simulation tasks. Discovering hidden knowledge …

Point2ffd: Learning shape representations of simulation-ready 3d models for engineering design optimization

T Rios, B Van Stein, T Bäck… - … Conference on 3D …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Methods for learning on 3D point clouds became ubiquitous due to the popularization of 3D
scanning technology and advances of machine learning techniques. Among these methods …